The Old Bridge (), also named the State Bridge (), the Main Bridge (), and the Drava Bridge (), is a
bridge
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crossing the
Drava
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Maribor
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, northeastern
Slovenia
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. It links
Main Square () and
Pobrežje Street Pobrežje may refer to:
* Pobrežje District, a suburb of Maribor, Slovenia
* Pobrežje, Črnomelj, a village near Črnomelj, Slovenia
* Pobrežje, Videm, a village near Ptuj, Slovenia
* Pobrežje, Podgorica, a suburb of Podgorica, Montenegro
* P ...
() and is long.
Its central part, spanning the Drava, is long and has three steel arches.
The bridge was completed in 1913
/ref> and opened to traffic on 23 August of that year.
Gallery
Maribor - Stari most z levega brega Drave (1).jpg, The Old Bridge in 2011
Maribor, Glavni most.jpg, The Old Bridge in 2013
Bundesarchiv Bild 121-0721, Marburg-Drau, Adolf Hitler.jpg, Adolf Hitler
Adolf Hitler (20 April 1889 – 30 April 1945) was an Austrian-born German politician who was the dictator of Nazi Germany from 1933 until Death of Adolf Hitler, his suicide in 1945. Adolf Hitler's rise to power, He rose to power as the lea ...
on the Old Bridge, April 1941
References
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Bridges in Maribor
Bridges completed in 1913
Bridges over the Drava in Slovenia
Arch bridges in Slovenia
Road bridges in Slovenia
20th-century architecture in Slovenia
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